Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?

2005-12-09 Thread Phill MV
hotplug, afaik, refers to not only the practice of swapping SCSI drives on the fly in busy servers but as well as anything USB related, mounting of drives, and the like. Assuming you won't need to plug in a USB drive all of the sudden  and you keep a spotless fstab and have a sole eth connection, h

Re: [gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:07:07PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > But I notice in yahoo when I try to read my mail after > logging into my account I'm bumped to a window that > says my browser is not setup to go to that URL, Perhaps it checks for JavaScript? or browser ID string? I

Re: [gentoo-user] teamspeak

2005-12-09 Thread Qv6
On Friday 09 December 2005 11:28 pm, Thomas Harold wrote: > AFAIK, the only choices for group-based voice-chat are either > Ventrillo or TeamSpeak. Currently, TeamSpeak seems to have the more > friendly licensing for small groups of individuals who want to stay > in touch (and have a central voice

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems

2005-12-09 Thread Rumen Yotov
On 15:03 Fri 09 Dec , Grant wrote: > > > I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to > > > 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. > > > During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to > > > support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't

[gentoo-user] inotify missing with 2.6.14-gentoo-r2

2005-12-09 Thread Yoandy Rodriguez
Hello, After moving to 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 inotify device got lost. I have CONFIG_INOTIFY set to yes and /proc/filesystems shows a inotifyfs (never heard of it). any hint about what might be happening?? -- Nothing's gonna change my world Jadex http://ojo-magico.blogspot.com smime.p7s Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/env.d help

2005-12-09 Thread Norberto Bensa
Grant wrote: > Can someone tell me how to use /etc/env.d > properly? > # env-update Regards, -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] teamspeak

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas Harold
Qv6 wrote: Folks; Just came across teamspeak, and wanted to find out how it rates alongside other similar software. What are its good and bad points, both from the server and client side AFAIK, the only choices for group-based voice-chat are either Ventrillo or TeamSpeak. Currentl

[gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-09 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, On my new setup I'd like to be able to surf the web using links before I try configuring X and installing firefox etc. Because my modem is so beastly slow I dread having to download a bunch of stuff I don't really need. But I notice in yahoo when I try to read my mail after loggi

Re: [gentoo-user] (mostly) good news!

2005-12-09 Thread maxim wexler
> Well, I don't know about everybody else but I > compile my ppp stuff in my > kernel. pon and poff works fine here. May be worth > a shot. hehe. We're both wrong. I had overlooked CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC; after compiling it as a module and modprobing it I was able to reach the web. > _

[gentoo-user] /etc/env.d help

2005-12-09 Thread Grant
Hello, this document: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency directs me to add the following: export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 to a file under '/etc/env.d/' to keep flash from crashing firefox. I tried adding it to: /etc/env.d/10MozillaFirefox which already contains: LDPATH=/us

Re: [gentoo-user] sata drive on abit fatal1ty an8-sli

2005-12-09 Thread Steven Susbauer
It loaded sata_nv and I'm pretty sure the drive is probably set up. I'm running headless at the time so I can't confirm. This is a 3gb/sec SATAII drive and controller, so I'm thinking it might be unsupported, at least by the kernel on the live cd (lspci is showing almost everything as "NVIDIA Corpo

[gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?

2005-12-09 Thread Grant
Should I emerge hotplug and coldplug on my hosted server when upgrading to udev? I don't think there are any attached devices. However, the docs do say: hotplug also handles the automated bringup of network devices and firmware downloading. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] advice on security and keyloggers

2005-12-09 Thread Jerry Turba
I've heard a lot lately about software keyloggers that can be installed on a computer while surfing the net, and how big a security problem they have become. What is the Linux/Gentoo approach to block keyloggers? I do not run any antivirus or anti spyware programs (I don't even network with Win

[gentoo-user] PHP and Mbstring (was Re: PHP and MCRYPT)

2005-12-09 Thread Jeff Grossman
Francesco Riosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Grossman wrote: >> I am running dev-lang/php 5.0.5. I installed phpmyadmin, and when I >> first go into it, it says I do not have mcrypt installed in my php. How >> do I enable mcrypt in PHP? I tried adding the use flag of mcrypt, but >> that

Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread fire-eyes
Bob Sanders wrote: > On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:43:45 -0500 > fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use >>newer nvidia drivers. >> > > > The newer Nvidia drivers have a tighter spec on speeds. They also now need > mode lines

Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools vs. modutils

2005-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:26:49 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: > this is what I have in mind, and this is what made me careful: I get > told "unmerge module-init-tools and emerge modutils", and this seems to > be exactly wrong, isn't it? It is wrong. > So I wonder which circumstance causes "my

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 15:20:21 -0800, michael higgins wrote: > I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than > content over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way > to go. With that in mind, I installed BIND. BIND seems like overkill for just this task. Try d

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Those binary packages are supplied by upstream, it's not the same as the > Gentoo devs providing compiled packages, although they do in the GRP > collections. > > It's no big deal upgrading KDE anyway. Set PORTAGE_NICENESS to a suitable > value and you c

Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:43:45 -0500 fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use > newer nvidia drivers. > The newer Nvidia drivers have a tighter spec on speeds. They also now need mode lines for, as I recall, resolutions above

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > He should have watched me compiling Apache, PHP, MySQL and a lot of > other packages on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM, what other distro More `TOSS'... hehe He should of watched me compile emacs on a vic 20 Oh wait .. I'm `he' and now that I t

[gentoo-user] System hangs for a while on mounting filesystem boot message

2005-12-09 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm getting a little hang when I boot my system. This happens since kernel 2.6.12 final. It didn't occur with 2.6.12rc1 :( At boot, after loading modules message and just after the mounting filesystem message, my box hangs for a little wh

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sure, why are you emerge-ing the full kde? > > 1) `emerge kdebase` > 2) ??? > 3) Profit! First off, this is an install from scratch. While your comment sounds smart, this really only puts off doing it later. And the mindnumbing confusion of what parts o

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 12/9/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris White wrote: > > >On Saturday 10 December 2005 06:55, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > > >>I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: > >> > >>I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of > >>kde. It is an older machin

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > will, have patience my son :P. I usually prefer `grasshopper' and you will need a heavy fake oriental accent : ) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Gerhard Hoogterp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, there are > already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, openoffice-bin. Mostly big > packages which take some time to compile. So the idea of having a > pre-compiled KDE isn't

[gentoo-user] teamspeak

2005-12-09 Thread Qv6
Folks; Just came across teamspeak, and wanted to find out how it rates alongside other similar software. What are its good and bad points, both from the server and client side TIA -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X.org can't get up

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 09 December 2005 19:29, a tiny voice compelled Rafael Fernández López to write: > Hi, > > I've done an "emerge -vuD world", and udev was updated to 077-r3. Now my > computer can't get up X.org, and cannot recognize devices. > > Is this a bug ?? Everything worked perfectly until I reboote

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r4/nvidia

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 09 December 2005 19:30, a tiny voice compelled Matthew Cline to write: > I think you are having the same problem that I did: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112976 > > > HTH, > > Matt Thanks for the info. you saved me a lot of time and energy. I don't know why I thought cre

Re: [gentoo-user] (mostly) good news!

2005-12-09 Thread Dale
maxim wexler wrote: >Hello everybody, > >Imagine my relief and joy when the boot process sailed >past the point of no return and dropped me into my new >gentoo environment on a heretofore unreachable SATA >partition. > >What I did was, after chrooting to it, I ran pon then >emerge --sync && emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-09 Thread michael higgins
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 17:08:55 -0700 Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/9/05, michael higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content > > over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With > > tha

Re: [gentoo-user] X.org can't get up

2005-12-09 Thread Dale
Rafael Fernández López wrote: >Hi, > >I've done an "emerge -vuD world", and udev was updated to 077-r3. Now my >computer can't get up X.org, and cannot recognize devices. > >Is this a bug ?? Everything worked perfectly until I rebooted with this >new udev version. I have lots of kernel versions, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Dale
Chris White wrote: >On Saturday 10 December 2005 06:55, Harry Putnam wrote: > > >>I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: >> >>I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of >>kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB >>ram. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-09 Thread michael higgins
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:42:22 +1030 Shawn Haggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > michael higgins wrote: > > >Hello, all. Need a clue, here. > > > >I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content > >over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r4/nvidia

2005-12-09 Thread Matthew Cline
I think you are having the same problem that I did: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112976 HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] X.org can't get up

2005-12-09 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi, I've done an "emerge -vuD world", and udev was updated to 077-r3. Now my computer can't get up X.org, and cannot recognize devices. Is this a bug ?? Everything worked perfectly until I rebooted with this new udev version. I have lots of kernel versions, but none of them will work (the last on

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 23:35:43 +0100, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: > While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, > there are already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, > openoffice-bin. Mostly big packages which take some time to compile. So > the idea of having a pre-compile

Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread fire-eyes
Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/9/05, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use >>newer nvidia drivers. >> >>Instead of covering the whole story and info here, I have placed it into >>this text file. >> >>I sure would appreciate s

Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools vs. modutils

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/05, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I wonder which circumstance causes "my machine" to recommend this > obviously non sense dependency, and how I can resolve this. Any hints > anyone? Output of "emerge --info" and "emerge -Duvpt world" please. Nothing in the current porta

Re: [gentoo-user] sata drive on abit fatal1ty an8-sli

2005-12-09 Thread maxim wexler
> > > the dev tree? I didn't have anything like > /dev/sda. Oops, sorry, I didn't see this part. If the SATA drivers are loaded when LiveCD boots it should see the drive. I'm currently having a tussle w/ a SATA drive myself(mostly resolved) from dmesg: ... [ 31.970006] nv_sata: Primary device

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-09 Thread Shawn Haggett
michael higgins wrote: Hello, all. Need a clue, here. I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With that in mind, I installed BIND. I couldn't find anything like a quickie Gentoo example of

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizing XFS, any clues?

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/05, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have just optimized my EXT3 partitions and now they are running > smooth, and I wanted to do the same with the XFS one. Can somebody > help me? What do you mean by "optimized"? xfs_fsr will defragment an xfs partition. >

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/05, michael higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content > over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With > that in mind, I installed BIND. nscd does this, and is much simpler. It is already i

[gentoo-user] (mostly) good news!

2005-12-09 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, Imagine my relief and joy when the boot process sailed past the point of no return and dropped me into my new gentoo environment on a heretofore unreachable SATA partition. What I did was, after chrooting to it, I ran pon then emerge --sync && emerge -Du system && emerge -Du gent

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r4/nvidia

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
While trying to eliminate another problem, I built a new kernel, booted to it and unmerged and emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. I then started X. So far, so good. I tried to open a konsole and got pty permission errors. I rebooted to my 2.6.5 kernel, did some research and emerged udev (/us

Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/05, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use > newer nvidia drivers. > > Instead of covering the whole story and info here, I have placed it into > this text file. > > I sure would appreciate some input! Well, I don't u

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 09 December 2005 18:20, michael higgins wrote: > Hello, all. Need a clue, here. > ---snip--- > ... I should only have to look up > something once, then that info is available locally until I reboot. Or, > like that... > > So, how do I know if this is doing what I want? If anyone knows t

[gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread fire-eyes
Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use newer nvidia drivers. Instead of covering the whole story and info here, I have placed it into this text file. I sure would appreciate some input! http://fire-eyes.org/temp/badness.txt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing lis

[gentoo-user] Optimizing XFS, any clues?

2005-12-09 Thread Cláudio Henrique
Greetings, I have just optimized my EXT3 partitions and now they are running smooth, and I wanted to do the same with the XFS one. Can somebody help me? Is there a way to turn a XFS partition into a EXT3 without loosing data? Thanks in advance, Claudio. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools vs. modutils

2005-12-09 Thread Christoph Eckert
> If I recall correctly, you need to unmerge modutils and emerge > module-init-tools.  One is for 2.4 kernels and the other is for 2.6 > kernels if I recall correctly.  I have done this and it worked fine. this is what I have in mind, and this is what made me careful: I get told "unmerge module-

[gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-09 Thread michael higgins
Hello, all. Need a clue, here. I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With that in mind, I installed BIND. I couldn't find anything like a quickie Gentoo example of this minimal use of th

Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools vs. modutils

2005-12-09 Thread Dale
Christoph Eckert wrote: >Hi, > > >when doing >emerge --update world -pv >I get a blocking dependency: > > sys-apps/module-init-tools (is blocking sys-apps/modutils-2.4.27) > >is it save on a 2.6.14.2 kernel to do >emerge --unmerge module-init-tools && emerge modutils >or will I run into trouble? >

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems

2005-12-09 Thread Grant
> > I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to > > 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. > > During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to > > support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a terminal in > > X. xterm won't start an

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Chris White
On Saturday 10 December 2005 06:55, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: > > I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of > kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB > ram. Is there an alternative to this? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Tom Smith
Well, I learn something new every day. I recalled reading in one of the Gentoo install docs that there was no way to download binary cuts of apps. Since there are /some/, KDE would probably be a good candidate for this... I agree. (I spent around two days anxiously waiting for KDE to compile.)  

[gentoo-user] module-init-tools vs. modutils

2005-12-09 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, when doing emerge --update world -pv I get a blocking dependency: sys-apps/module-init-tools (is blocking sys-apps/modutils-2.4.27) is it save on a 2.6.14.2 kernel to do emerge --unmerge module-init-tools && emerge modutils or will I run into trouble? Sorry for my ignorance, but asking go

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Dale
Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: >While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, there are >already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, openoffice-bin. Mostly big >packages which take some time to compile. So the idea of having a >pre-compiled KDE isn't that alien to the world o

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Friday 09 December 2005 23:20, Tom Smith wrote: > Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software you > receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to install (which > includes compiling) the software with your specific preferences--this is > what makes Gentoo wh

Re: [gentoo-user] network problem :: new install

2005-12-09 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:14 pm, pat wrote: > >> >> I have a new notebook and trying to setup my Gentoo. I've followed >> the Gentoo >> handbook and setup the network as DHCP. >> >> But during the boot I have error like this: >> eth0 does not exist > > > Sounds like the driver for

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Tom Smith
Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software you receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to install (which includes compiling) the software with your specific preferences--this is what makes Gentoo what it is.   If you like, you can add an emerge option tha

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems

2005-12-09 Thread Grant
> > I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to > > 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. > > During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to > > support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a terminal in > > X. xterm won't start an

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Jeff
On Friday 09 December 2005 16:55, Harry Putnam wrote: Check out Kubuntu dude. It's probably right up your alley. This is *not* an anti-Gentoo email. I 100% love Gentoo, and will continue to use it! (Puts asbestos suit back in the drawer...) > I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly

[gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Harry Putnam
I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using a lighter, faster compiling, X setup. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd

2005-12-09 Thread Peter O'Connor
Neil Bothwick wrote: When you compile a kernel manually, you choose which modules you need in the kernel, build those in and either leave the rest out or compile them as separate modules. Genkernel is intended to make things easier, and it may do when things work as they should, but I find it ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users

2005-12-09 Thread Shawn Singh
another Gentoo user in Florida. (Jacksonville)On 12/8/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rob Lytle wrote:>On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:59:21 +0900>pclouds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>If you are still  interested in frappr.com, please give one more point>>to http://www.frappr.com/linuxusers :)>>-->>Bi

Re: [gentoo-user] network problem :: new install

2005-12-09 Thread Stroller
On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:14 pm, pat wrote: I have a new notebook and trying to setup my Gentoo. I've followed the Gentoo handbook and setup the network as DHCP. But during the boot I have error like this: eth0 does not exist Sounds like the driver for your network card isn't loaded. If the NI

Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting

2005-12-09 Thread Manuel McLure
Michael George wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:57:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About a week later, I booted it and it wouldn't boot. It got stuck at "configuring system to use udev" and never gets okay. I just sits there for ever. My system hangs at this point quite often. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 09 December 2005 15:45, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/9/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is NPTL a selectable kernel option? I can't seem to locate it. > > Nope, it is a core kernel function..not configurable. > > -Richard Thanks -- Regards, E

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is NPTL a selectable kernel option? I can't seem to locate it. Nope, it is a core kernel function..not configurable. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 09 December 2005 14:56, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/9/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > looks like I have to build a new kernel > > > > > 09:37:26 up 1 day, 16:10, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.20, 0.44 > > Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > looks like I have to build a new kernel > 09:37:26 up 1 day, 16:10, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.20, 0.44 > Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Yes, you haven't done that for at least a year! -Richard -- gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/8/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it your opinion that this would help my situation with the multiple > instances? If so I will give it a try tomorrow. No idea, but it is worth a shot. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of gnome-vfs

2005-12-09 Thread ellotheth rimmwen
gentoo-user is reading my mind... I just had the same firefox-thunderbird/gnome-vfs/equery depends question this morning, and was on the verge of make a list/forum post. I wonder if I bleed purple... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to > 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. > During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to > support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a ter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Framebuffer and kenerl options

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/05, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't it at the "Character Devices"? No, you are thinking of DRM/DRI support, not framebuffer. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of gnome-vfs

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/05, Edwin Kapauni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > > [...] > > > > "Equery depends" is a little brain damaged here. It lists _possible_ > > dependancies, not real ones. > > Good to know. Is there any more reliable replacement for "equery d"? Nothing really simple, but yo

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems

2005-12-09 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 9, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Grant wrote: I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a terminal i

[gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems

2005-12-09 Thread Grant
I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a terminal in X. xterm won't start and "terminal" starts

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge --resume' problem

2005-12-09 Thread Grant
> > Hello, I've been recompiling my system with gcc 3.4 and utilizing > > emerge --resume. The last time I used emerge --resume it started > > emerging firefox and said "1 of 3". The next time I checked on it, > > firefox had emerged successfully but the process then stopped. I ran > > emerge --

Re: [gentoo-user] lightweight webcam server for embedded gentoo?

2005-12-09 Thread michael
Looks perfect. I'll try it out tonight. I have camE working, but it's not so lightweight. Thanks, Michael On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > > tv quality - even a jpeg every second or so will be fine. Trouble is, > > all the software I've found so far assumes X and many other

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

2005-12-09 Thread Harald Arnesen
Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jesús García Crespo (aka Sevein) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my >> system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he propossed >> to create a new group, "compiler", for ex

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

2005-12-09 Thread Harald Arnesen
Jesús García Crespo (aka Sevein) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my > system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he propossed > to create a new group, "compiler", for example, where all the users > who will be able to r

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Ethernet on installation

2005-12-09 Thread Felipe Ribeiro
I've got another NIC, so i'm gonna use it while installing gentoo, then, when i recompile the kernel, i add the support to my nic. :D Thanks On 12/9/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felipe Ribeiro wrote: > > I'm not installing on the slack box, 'cause i want to overwrite it. i'm > > boo

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

2005-12-09 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 18:21 +0100, Jesús García Crespo wrote: > Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my > system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he propossed > to create a new group, "compiler", for example, where all the users > who will be able to r

[gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

2005-12-09 Thread aka Sevein
Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he propossed to create a new group, "compiler", for example, where all the users who will be able to run gcc must belong to it! Wouldn't be interesting to implement this i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e world has Blocks, big time. O_O

2005-12-09 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > >Of course you can, run each emerge in a different shell. > > Well, it is not practical. I only get 26K so if I go to the forums, it may take several minutes to download a page, much less several pages when I am searching for something. It also slows down my download as

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e world has Blocks, big time. O_O

2005-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:28:36 -0600, Dale wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I have been reading the forums. I was in the > middle of a download and when on dial-up, you can't search and download > a package at the same time. Of course you can, run each emerge in a different shell. > It wasn't maki

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-077-r1 makes /dev/dsp disappear!

2005-12-09 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Friday 09 December 2005 16:04, Simon Hogg wrote: > I was suffering from this same problem and it does appear to be a bug > in udev-077-r1 (-r2 is now in ~x86 but I've not tried it yet). > > The solution that someone else came up with (calr0x on the forums) was > to run udevstart once the system

[gentoo-user] qpxtool ebuild and Qt problem

2005-12-09 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
I have tried to build the 'qpxtool' app with ebuild file shown below. The problem is I have sloted Qt3 and Qt4, and ebuild doesn't switch to Qt3. The app _must_ be built with Qt3. How to modify the ebuild file to force a Qt3 using? Andrew __

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop part 2

2005-12-09 Thread Dale
John Jolet wrote: > > there is a very good howto on kde in the documentation on the > gentoo.org site. I point you in that direction because it mentions a > bunch of possibilities, and I don't recall them all. however, a > google for "site:gentoo.org kde" should net you the relevant stuff.

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop part 2

2005-12-09 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 9, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: ok -- we didn't get the snow day I was hoping for, but, I decided to go ahead and work on the new install anyway. -- Call me crazy -- I am in the process of the build now, and am beginning to think about software, and I am not

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Ethernet on installation

2005-12-09 Thread Zac Medico
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: I'm not installing on the slack box, 'cause i want to overwrite it. i'm booting from the CD. Okay, if I understand correctly, you want to overwrite your slackware installation? In that case, if there's some free space on your root partition, then you can in install a mi

[gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop part 2

2005-12-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks: ok -- we didn't get the snow day I was hoping for, but, I decided to go ahead and work on the new install anyway. -- Call me crazy -- I am in the process of the build now, and am beginning to think about software, and I am not sure that I understand how to properly install stuff. For

[gentoo-user] Re: BNEP module

2005-12-09 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Yes... I executed with no problem: pand --listen --role NAP --master --autozap pand --connect 00:0A:0B:0C:0D:0E --service NAP --autozap I just replaced 00:0A:0B:0C:0D:0E to the address of my cellphone. Leandro 2005/12/9, David LIBAULT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How about the "pand --listen..." line

Re: [gentoo-user] What provides emaint?

2005-12-09 Thread Francesco Riosa
Phil Sexton wrote: > Hi Gentoo folk, > > I can't find the package that provides the emaint command. > > I browsed through esearch --fullname --verbose app-admin|less, but > found nothing that looked promising. > > Any hints/tips? > installed by portage # which emaint /usr/sbin/emaint you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP and MCRYPT

2005-12-09 Thread Dale
Jeff Grossman wrote: >I am running dev-lang/php 5.0.5. I installed phpmyadmin, and when I >first go into it, it says I do not have mcrypt installed in my php. How >do I enable mcrypt in PHP? I tried adding the use flag of mcrypt, but >that does not seem to do anything. What am I missing? >

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP and MCRYPT

2005-12-09 Thread Francesco Riosa
Jeff Grossman wrote: > I am running dev-lang/php 5.0.5. I installed phpmyadmin, and when I > first go into it, it says I do not have mcrypt installed in my php. How > do I enable mcrypt in PHP? I tried adding the use flag of mcrypt, but > that does not seem to do anything. What am I missing?

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 08 December 2005 19:02, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/8/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/8/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:05, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht > > > to > > > > > > write:

[gentoo-user] BNEP module

2005-12-09 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi, I'm trying to configure my bnep0 as shown in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bluetooth-guide.xml. Well, I'm doing like this: # modprobe bnep # lsmod Module Size Used by bnep 12928 2 but when I try to setup the ip address for the bnep0 I got the following e

[gentoo-user] PHP and MCRYPT

2005-12-09 Thread Jeff Grossman
I am running dev-lang/php 5.0.5. I installed phpmyadmin, and when I first go into it, it says I do not have mcrypt installed in my php. How do I enable mcrypt in PHP? I tried adding the use flag of mcrypt, but that does not seem to do anything. What am I missing? Thanks, Jeff -- gentoo-us

Re: [gentoo-user] What provides emaint?

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
It's in the latest, masked portage, I believe. yup qpkg -f -i /usr/lib/portage/bin/emaint sys-apps/portage-2.0.53 * The Portage Package Management System. The primary package management and distribution system for Gentoo. [ http://www.gentoo.org/ ] On Friday 09 December 2005 08:45, a

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